• Low pressure interferes with cooking schedules at home
• SSGC blames ‘depleting indigenous gas reservoirs’ for shortages
• Admits domestic customers are facing daily gas closure from 10pm to 5am

KARACHI: Almost entire city has been grappling with a severe gas crisis amid cold winter compelling domestic consumers largely to buy expensive liquefied petroleum gas, better known as LPG.

While the gas loadshedding is scheduled from 9:30pm to 6am and 2:30pm to 5pm, most parts of the city either remain without gas most of the day or receive gas with a very low pressure.

Residents of different localities were of the view that unannounced gas loadshedding always hit the city whenever winter was round the corner. The gas crisis has aggravated since the arrival of winter in the city.

Sources in the gas utility told Dawn that the dilapidated gas distribution infrastructure across the city was also one of the major reasons behind the crisis and the low pressure was mainly caused by leakages in the distribution network.

They said that the SSGC was currently engaged in rehabilitation of its aging gas distribution infrastructure across the city to........

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